hmmmm, how do you define a "commitment"?
Where do you draw the line, I think WWW has a point here, NVQ went boobies up because people took the micky out of the scheme.
My view with regards to NVQ was that to get the tax back you should:
Hold a class one medical
Commit yourself to the scheme in writing
Draw up a plan for training
That's what I did at the outset in 1998, the NVQ managing agents didn't want to know (I was already halfway through another NVQ course and had to do all this stuff for them)
Now if anything could happen through the Pprune support fund, and to an extent I concur with IFR, there would be a number of people at differing stages of training - I think the above criteria should be the bare minimum (it should be anyway if you are serious about training), but other cases will have to be taken on merit, not easy.